Showing posts with label food addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food addiction. Show all posts
Sunday, August 5, 2012

Weight Loss Redux

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Why diet pills are problematic. "Physicians who treat obesity hailed the Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of two...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The Addiction Inbox Top Ten

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A rundown of the most popular posts . What are readers of Addiction Inbox interested in? Although scarcely scientific, a look at the most...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Bulimia: What To Look For [Guest Post]

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Signs and symptoms of a dangerous disorder. [Today’s guest post was contributed by Heidi Taylor. I include it here as part of a continuing ...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

How Junk Food Works

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Ex-FDA chief offers clues to food addiction. It is a perplexingly common experience: You open a bag of cookies, intending to have one or two...
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

America Anonymous—Book Review

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Sex, drugs, and shoplifting. New York Times magazine contributor Benoit Denizet-Lewis interweaves eight personal stories of addiction and o...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

"Mood Foods"

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Why addicts crave sugar and starch. James Langton of Clearhead.org.uk recently sent me a fascinating article about food and addiction. The ...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

[Guest Post] Food For Thought--Are You Addicted?

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Can you eat your way to happiness? ( This article is contributed by Sarah Scrafford, who regularly writes on the topic of Becoming an Ultras...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Dopamine and Obesity

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Overeating, drug abuse, and the D2 receptor . A genetic variation in the dopamine D2 receptor predisposes women toward obesity, according to...
Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Drug for Cocaine Addicts Causes Weight Loss

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Is Vigabatrin the next big diet pill? The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory announced that obese rats lost weig...
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Monday, June 2, 2008

The Biology of Bulimia

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The binge-and-purge addiction. By 2000, the biological substrate unifying alcoholism, addiction, depression, and certain eating disorders ha...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Food Addiction and Dopamine

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Why your brain likes sweets. The brain's ability to sniff out calories in the form of sugar depends upon sugar's drug-like effect on...
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Friday, December 7, 2007

“Drug Foods” and Addiction

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Amino acid restoration therapy Addicts frequently resort to sugar foods and other high-carbohydrates snacks as a substitute drug addiction, ...
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Thursday, November 1, 2007

Food Addiction: Snacking on Serotonin

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The neurology of carbohydrate craving. Eighteen years ago, Richard and Judith Wurtman, a husband and wife research team at the Massachusett...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Bulimia as Food Addiction

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Serotonin-mediated brain activity drives the binge-and-purge cycle Bulimia , the binge-and-purge disorder that tends to afflict young women...
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